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What is the best format for comic strips? The easy answer is in a newspaper in the funnies section. That is the one most will come up with. But there used to be another place where you could read comic strips: mass market paperbacks. They were a big deal for several decades. They seemed to be a well made receptacle for all the jokes and adventures. This is the story of a bookstore that sold nothing but these comic strip paperbacks.
The owner goes into long monologues about each book that might be purchased. He talks about the best format and how things had to change because strips and paperbacks are not always in synch. A funny story about comic strips and the love of bookstores. This piece of fiction informs and tells a good story about one of those men with more dreams than sense. The Comic Book Hinterlands is the place where the oddness of comics is celebrated.
